Game-board.



To all whom it may concern:

starting-point 0 An equal number of holes is disposed at each UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD F, ELBURNQOF \GHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND,

exams-Bonita} Be it known that I, RICHARD FRANKLIN ELBURN, a citizen of the United States, re-- siding at Chestertown, in the county of Kent and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in game-boards, its object being tojp'rovide a device which shall prove amusing and enter-' taining as well as instructive.

To these ends my improvement consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2 2 .of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows one of the counter-pegs. Fig. '4 represents one of the playing-pegs or men.

In carrying out my invention I make my apparatus preferably in the form of a box A, t e

cover of which may be hinged, or it may be a simple slip-cover. The top of the cover A has delineated upon it one .or more (preferably two) concentric circular lines a, and

between said lines a concentric circular row of holes a, is made, as shown in Fig. 1. At the upper portion of the concentric circles is made a suitably-shaped figure at-which has in its center one of the holes before referred to. At the lower portion of the circles is shown a blank s ace of, which designates the the concentric row of holes.

side of the spaces referred to, and at preferably every fifth hole the number is placed so that the totals can be easily counted.

Two vertical chords 6 b and two horizontal chords 0 c, of substantially equal'length, intersecting'each other are drawn from the inner circle, forming nine inclosures c 0, within each of which are the holes 0 Each of the spaces formed b the inner circle and the in tersecting chor s have delineated on their faces a suitable number, as shown. The game-pieces used are twelve in numbersix of one color and six of a contrasting color. Of each set of six pieces one (designated as B) is larger than the others and is used asa counter. The other five, b, are used in playing the game to be placed in the holes. The game is pla ed by two persons, each having six pieces, all the pieces'of each player Specificationnf Letters ratent.

' Application filed March 19,1904. Serial ITO-198.990.

Patented April 1-7, 1906.

being of the same color. The game is played by oneplayer starting and putting one piece or peg in one of the holes within the s aces c, the object being to get the pegs in t e highest-numbered holes and also to get his pegs in a row either in a straight line or diagonally. As soon as one of the players has succeeded in placing three of his men in a row he adds the numbers in said three ,spaces and places his counter that distance around the circle. The other player makes no count at all. The small men are removed at once, and the play proceeds until one of the players reaches No. 30, or the goal, each player starting at the bottom at the center and counting upwardly to the top. The player who first reaches the 30-hole, or goal, wins the game.

It will be seen that I provide a game which will be pleasing and interesting and also an aid in teaching children how to count. The

holes in the box-cover may extendentirely through the same. The game-pieces or men can be made in any desired shape or configuration, the. only requisite being that each set of six should be of contrasting colors.

While the general rules of playing will be as above stated, yet it is obvious that different rules for pla g may be devisedsuch, for instance, as 1n the event that neither player succeeds in getting three of his pegs in a row the player who has one of his men in the line of spaces comprising the figure sought scores five and moves his counting-peg around the circular row of holes that distance.

While one of the main objects of the game is for a pla er to get his egs in the highestnumbered oles within t e spaces a, yet it will be observed that a player can by exercising skill and judgment in putting his peg in low-numbered spaces prevent or block his opponent from getting his pegs in high-numbered rows.

Havingthus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A game ap aratus consisting of a suitable base having elineated thereon a plurality of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines forming a lurality of spaces, a value-numeral delineate on the surface of each space, a circle inclosing the vertical and horizontal lines, each space provided with a pe hole or socket, a row of peg-holes beginning below they lower central space at each side of the vertical center of the same and extended u wardly colors, each set consisting of a specified numin an arc to the side of thevertica center ber of small pegs and one large or registering of the upper central space, a peg-hole located peg.

above the upper space at lts vertical cenl p I RICHARD F. ELBURN. ter, said peg-hole forming a continuatlon of Wltl'lGSSBS: the two slde arcs of holes and being connnon CHARLES S. SMITH,

to each, two sets of game-pegs of contrasting GE PEAoooK. 

